Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Clampy]

All feels a bit gloomy right now doesn’t it?

Why?

[cdbearsfan]

Yep. Feel like we had our chance, now the rules are reasserting themselves to make sure it doesn't happen again.

[PeterWithe]

Could be that we dont want to buy any players before end of the month and selling clubs want to do the deals now for obvious reasons, so they are alerting the market to the availability of players to force our hand, and that of others.

[AV84]

All feels a bit gloomy right now doesn’t it?

Not sure gloomy is the right word but it definitely feels like what was possible with a CL finish is not possible with a Europa League finish.

[Brazilian Villain]

All feels a bit gloomy right now doesn’t it?

Why?

It's already the second day of transfer window and we haven't signed anyone.

[pauliewalnuts]

All feels a bit gloomy right now doesn’t it?

Why?

It'll be the fear that PSR rules will force us into selling and/or curtail our spending plans to be able to continue growing.

It's not that controversial a standpoint.

[Clampy]

Maybe it will, who knows but let's see where we are at the end of the window. I'm not going to start worrying two days into it opening, especially with a manager of the calibre we have.

[paul_e]

We have this every summer, I assume it's some grandfathered in genetic data from our time under Ellis (and 2nd half of Lerner) whereby every summer has to be the one where everything will go wrong.

[pauliewalnuts]

Maybe it will, who knows but let's see where we are at the end of the window. I'm not going to start worrying two days into it opening, especially with a manager of the calibre we have.

That's your shout, others may disagree (and obviously do).

And you won't have to wait until the end of the window, either, it'll be June 30th.

[andyh]

Maybe it will, who knows but let's see where we are at the end of the window. I'm not going to start worrying two days into it opening, especially with a manager of the calibre we have.

But even you must be able to see that the parameters we will be working in are far, far tighter than they would be if we’d have amassed 1 more point.

[Toronto Villa]

All feels a bit gloomy right now doesn’t it?

Why?

It'll be the fear that PSR rules will force us into selling and/or curtail our spending plans to be able to continue growing.

It's not that controversial a standpoint.

Yeh I didn’t think it was too complex. It’s that we should pushing on. Not so much about signing anyone but when we are watching Man U lash out £60m on a forward, Liverpool reinforcing as are Man City you know it’s just going to get tougher. And much more so if we are forced into weakening ourselves due to financial rules. There’s no panic on June 2nd. But just how I and I expect some of us feel on the back of how the season ended and what we now have to do this month to avoid a some other penalty from the league or UEFA.

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t think it’s gloomy, more uncertain. It may end up being gloomy, but hopefully not.

[Clampy]

Not getting Champions League is a huge blow obviously but I'm pretty sure the club had a plan for either eventuality. It's happend now and we just need to get on with it and see how it pans out. It may not be as bad as we think it will be.

[andyh]

Gloomy isn’t the right word.

‘Less positive’ is more appropriate

[Dave]

I feel a bit gloomy because there's no interesting football for the next two months.

The transfer stuff is the same as it always was and always will be.